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by pixelmonkey 1257 days ago
A nice visual version of this memento mori is Tim Urban's "Your Life in Weeks":

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

After reading this, I used this nice online PDF generator to print out my personalized life calendar, and kept it in my home office with a pen nearby, checking off the passing weeks occasionally (every month or so).

https://www.ekn.io/calendar/

Spending some time to check off the first ~2k weeks -- checking a little box for each week of my life thus far -- was quite an emotional thing, actually.

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Tim Urban also wrote a slightly haunting follow-up: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

I read it every January or so.

Paul Graham also has an essay which explores the same core idea, but imho he manages to explore more angles of the passage of time, and how we perceive it through the scarcity of different experiences we value. If you liked this one, check it out:

http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html

Man this was hard to read. My parents moved across the country a few years ago, went from seeing them every two weeks to twice a year. I'll be lucky to see them more than a couple dozen times total for the rest of our lives.
I made a new tab page that follows the same idea:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/life-clock-new-tab...